The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 21, May 22, 2005, Article 12

FEATURED WEB SITE

This week's featured web site is recommended by Roger
deWardt Lane:

"With a view to preserve, protect and project Indian Art
and Numismatic Treasure in a proper perspective, Thakkar
Numismatic and Art Foundation has been established by
Mr. Praful K. Thakkar.

Here, Thakkar Foundation has made a humble attempt by
way of this website to share and spread the knowledge of
Indian Coins, Medals, Tokens and all metallic objects of
numismatic interest. Valued assistance from collectors and
scholars to enrich the site will be highly appreciated."

"The founder, Praful K. Thakkar, an Indian Administrative
Service Officer, was with the Government of Gujarat, India
for more than thirty years. He has worked in various capacities
as Collector, Commissioner and Secretary to the Government
of Gujarat in various departments. He voluntarily retired in
1995 at the age of 55 years."

"He has been an ardent numismatic collector for more than
40 years and has collected Indian coins, medals, tokens
and other collectibles like weights and match labels. He has
also tried to enhance his ancestral collection of medals of
Indian Princely States-British India-Republic India and
tokens of Indian banks, treasuries, personalities, religions
and advertisements. He has a collection of Passes of Indian
Railways, Ports, Princely Palaces and Viceroy Residencies
along with badge plates and membership badges."

Featured Web Site

[The site's scope is very broad, encompassing badges, cash
coupons, coins, medals, monograms, passes, seals & dies,
tokens and weights. Each category has many subcategories.
Most are not yet populated, but the ones which are have
nice images and fairly comprehensive cataloging information,
such as size, weight, metal and inscription This seems like a
site worth revisiting in the future as more meat is added to
a fine skeleton. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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